Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.